Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Allen.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeobotanical recovery in environmental settings with heavy clay and gley deposits is often challenging due to the difficuty of processing such sediments by flotation or wet-sieveing. Following good results from an initial experiment to improve visibility of floral and faunal remains in a gley deposit from Late Neolithic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Seminario.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The contributions of enslaved African Americans to local formal economies have often gone unrecognized in previous historical and archaeological research; this is especially true concerning the actions of enslaved women. Black Feminist Theory allows researchers to consider the ways that Black women viewed and affected the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonah Bullen.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fungi are ubiquitous across diverse landscapes and play critical roles in human societies, influencing global foodways, land use, and economies. In North America, the ethnographic works of various Indigenous groups document the significance of fungi as dietary items, medicine, fire tinder, and more. Despite their demonstrated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arlene Rosen.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations at San Esteban Rockshelter in the Chihuahuan Desert of SW Texas have revealed a long history of occupation beginning early in the Paleoindigenous period through Early and Late Archaic periods. This deep-time sequence offers the possibility of tracking human plant foraging practices from the Late Pleistocene...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chad Yost.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An important maize kernel processing method is nixtamalization, which involves boiling kernels in alkaline water to soften the kernels and remove the hulls. Researchers investigating maize processing, cooking, and consumption often look for microscopic plant remains called phytoliths. Because phytoliths are susceptible to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tres Zapotes, the largest epi-Olmec site in southern Veracruz, Mexico, has an occupation history spanning 2,000 years from the Early Formative (1500 BCE) to the Classic (300 CE) periods and saw the emergence of political complexity, agricultural economies, and monumental construction in the region (Pool and Loughlin 2017; Pool...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annette Hansen.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The southern Levant is a region that played a key role in the innovation of various agricultural and food technologies, such as some of the earliest pre-cursors of bread and other fermented foodstuffs, but later also in the proto-industrialization of cash crop production such as indigo and sugar cane and their respective...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Rossen.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fort Ancient plant use from ca 1000 to 1750 CE is well-understood from numerous sites in the middle Ohio River Valley of Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. The Fort Ancient people living on the fringes of Mississippi chiefdoms grew eight-row corn and Phaseolus beans, while deemphasizing nuts and native starchy-oily seeded native...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Agha.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Garay-Vazquez.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeobotanical enquiry on past foodways has been reinvigorated by analysing food lumps (charred multi-component plant aggregates). The characterization of food aggregates has provided archaeobotany with a means to answer Sherraat’s provocative statement that “people do not eat species, they ate meals” via recovering sensuous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia Popper.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Much of what we know about the foodways of Chinese migrants in Western North America comes from urban centers on the West Coast. This study focuses instead on botanical remains from the Pon Yam House in the remote mining community of Idaho City, Idaho. Located at 3,907 feet in the Ponderosa Pine Forest and 30 miles or more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Reinhart.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Waterman (Marshfield, Massachusetts; 1638-ca. 1640s) and Sprague (Andover, Connecticut; 1705-ca.1750s) House Sites are separated by a century of colonial history and modern state lines, yet linked by a common fate. Both homes were occupied by English families on colonial frontier landscapes until they burned in...